PEPRN

It is hard to argue that empowering students to make personally and socially responsible life choices both in and beyond the gymnasium is a commendable goal of physical education. It seems, however, that such outcomes are a bye-product of a skills-focused curriculum and not a deliberate and taught aspect of our subject. In other words, we don’t strive to cause affective learning as much as we hope they will happen. This podcast explores these issues through its consideration of Kevin Richards and colleagues 2019 paper “Combining the Skill Themes Approach with Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility to Teach Social and Emotional Learning in Elementary Physical Education from the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

“Highly-skilled students weren’t unable to gain respect through dominant play. Instead, they earnt respect through thoughtful decision-making, effective teaching, and positive support for every player.” This week’s podcast explores the late Cathy Ennis and Colleagues 1999 paper “Creating a Sense of Family in Urban Schools Using the “Sport for Peace” Curriculum from  Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.

Do girls experience sport at the same club and with the same facilities in the same way boys do? If they don't (as is evidenced in this paper and many news stories regarding women's sport) what can they do about it? Who’s making the decision about what’s relevant or not for these young people? This week’s podcast explore’s Carla Luguetti and Colleagues 2021 paper ‘Stop mocking, start respecting’: an activist approach meets African Australian refugee-background young women in grassroots football from Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health for some answers.

Does PE prepare young people to be active in spaces that surround them? Who’s making the decision about what’s relevant or not for these young people? This week's podcast explores James Rudd and colleagues 2021 paper “An ecological dynamics conceptualisation of physical ‘education’: Where we have been and where we could go next” from Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 

Not everyone is welcome in the public spaces that surround us and not all spaces, and the faces that reside there, are seen as being equal. This podcast prioritises the need to open our eyes to the realities of space and the racial spatiality they support and nurture. In this, the 13th episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about Brian Culp's 2020 paper ‘Thirdspace Investigations: Geography, Dehumanization, and Seeking Spatial Justice in Kinesiology’ from Quest.

Many children in our care suffer experience adverse childhood experiences which may lead to trauma which, in turn, impacts on their lives. But how responsive are teachers to the needs to these children? This podcast asks if we need "trauma-aware pedagogies" design to support and nurture the learning of these young people. In this, the 12th episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about the five principles of trauma-aware pedagogies in PE suggested by Tom Quarmby and Colleagues in their 2021 paper "Developing evidence-informed principles for trauma-aware pedagogies in physical eduction" from Physical Eduction and Sport Pedagogy. 

In this, the 11th episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about the different logics attributed to physical literacy in research and policy as we explore Mikael Quennerstedt, and colleagues 2020 paper “The fantasmatic logics of physical literacy” from Sport, Education and Society.

In this, the tenth episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about the marketplace of physical education as we explore Doune Macdonald’s 2011 paper “like a fish in water: physical Education Policy and Practice in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization” from Quest.

In this special edition I present on a conversation between teachers and trainee teachers regarding the teaching of examination PE. This podcast is broken into two parts to make it easier to access but this should be considered as a single conversation. In this part we explore Understanding the practical demands of GCSE/A Level PE, Dual Coding resources for knowledge recall, Diagnostics: Exam misconceptions and correction techniques, and Retrieval practice in GCSE PE.

In this special edition I present on a conversation between teachers and trainee teachers regarding the teaching of examination PE. This podcast is broken into two parts to make it easier to access but this should be considered as a single conversation. In this part we explore Flipped Learning, teaching A’Level PE, the use of Technology, and using a visualiser to model answers.